1971–1976
Professional training as architectural draughtsman (diploma'd),
excavation assistant with the Prehistory and Early history Institute in Dresden,
directly followed by basic military service with the National People’s Army

1976–1981
Study of painting and graphics
at the Academy for visual arts in Dresden,
final examination passed with professor Günther Horlbeck

1983
Expatriation from the GDR, removal to West-Berlin

1985 und 1987 Property master at the
Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayreuth

1986
Study stay in the South of France

1991
Work grant from the Senator
for Cultural Affairs, Berlin

Autumn 1992–Summer 1993
Residence grant from the state of
Schleswig-Holstein at the Lauenburg
Artists’ home

Autumn 1993–Summer 1994
Study stay in Amsterdam

1994
Special grant from the Käthe Dorsch
Foundation, Berlin, for graphic printing
in Copenhague
Summer: removal to Weimar

1998
Work grant from the Free State of Thuringia,
Ministry of Science, Research and Art

1998 und 1999
Lectureship on painting with the
Weimar Bauhaus University

1999
Marriage with Stella Vermeulen

2006
Project grant from the Fund for Culture
of the Free State of Thuringia